disjoined
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- undisjoined adjective
Etymology
Origin of disjoined
Example Sentences
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The pandemic highlighted the underlying weakness of the US public health system, particularly around its data systems and tech infrastructure: they’re outdated, disjoined, and underfunded, which leaves the country vulnerable to infectious disease threats.
From The Verge • Jun. 3, 2021
It is Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission President, who excuses his wobbly entrance with a somewhat disjoined aria about his sciatica, which then turns into a plea for more military powers for the European Union.
From Economist • Jul. 16, 2018
Henze described this song cycle as an “encounter between Germany and Greece as conjured up by a poet whose brain was clouded by insanity and who expressed his vision in wonderful but apparently disjoined phrases.”
From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2015
Separately he called for a radical overhaul of the disjoined framework governing the complex European processed meat supply chain.
From Salon • Feb. 26, 2013
Many single lines and expressions that have been gathered accidentally, as mere isolated phrases, disjoined from the context in which they originally occurred, bear traces of the ardour with which they were cast into shape.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
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